Plamen Papazikov

Bad Neuenahr's Kurpark stage held an open-air Die Csárdásfürstin on 3 July 2004, with Plamen Papazikov among the singers of Kálmán's operetta. He is from Plovdiv, where he went through the music school first as a bassoonist and then as a singer, before graduating from the State Academy of Music in Sofia in the class of Blagovesta Karnobatlova and working in the masterclasses of Rolando Panerai and Alexandrina Milcheva. A soloist of the Stefan Makedonski State Musical Theatre and later of Sofia Opera and Ballet, he has sung Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Paisiello, Massenet and Wagner, with operetta beside the opera roles — Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow in Rousse among them — and has toured with opera and with cantata and oratorio repertoire, leaving numerous recordings.